Clau de Nell | Loire | Cabernet Franc AOC | 2018 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Clau de Nell Cabernet Franc AOC 2018 (bio)

Wine Information

The Cabernet Franc vines are 45 to 55 years old. The vines grow in loamy, silty soil on sandstone and in red flint on tuffeau (limestone). The yield is 40 hl/ha. The grapes were harvested by hand in 12-kilo crates. They were destemmed and fermented for 30 days with only occasional pumping over. The wine was then aged for 12 months on the fine lees in Burgundy pièces aged five to seven years. The cuvée then matured for a further six months in individual barrels.

Colour

Intense purple

Nose

The 2018 Cabernet Franc from Clau de Nell combines its origins with the typical ripeness of the vintage. On the one hand, there is still the robust and down-to-earth character that you only find in Cabernet Franc in the Loire these days, but on the other, all of this is wrapped up in a wonderful creaminess and ripeness. There are plenty of blackberries, black cherries, and cassis here, concentrated almost like a liqueur, but then fanned out and refreshed by a hint of cool stone and light tobacco. The aroma is rounded off by a few dates, licorice, and garrigue.

Palate

On the palate, the Cabernet displays warmth and ripeness, but at the same time, it has wonderfully firm, grippy tannins, a few cool notes, a lean, ripe, yet present acidity, and a lively minerality. The dark fruit is accompanied by a sunlit forest floor, tobacco, and cedar wood. A charming Cabernet Franc with a hedonistic fruitiness and inner density that is also full of vitality.

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